Word: desertic
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Abdullah is best known at home as a prince of the desert, who has a good handshake, speaks in velvety tones and can be aloof one minute and chuckling the next. Closely resembling the famed founder of modern Saudi Arabia, King Abdul Aziz (generally known as Ibn Saud), he is fond of camel racing and is tolerant toward human frailties. "He will forgive anything but lying," says an intimate. He has a reputation for eschewing the country's endemic corruption; almost alone in the royal household, he forbids his sons to use their connections to profit in business. A devout...
...three the same other inanity by some other pop band. My theory is that International Velvet got to three the same way that Sartre won the Nobel Prize for Literature--because somebody had to. It (either the album or Sartre) is not something you want to take to a desert island with you. Unless you are certain that you are going to die soon, and want some happy dump music to keep your spirits up for your last couple of days...
...veteran of Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, I thought my generation had served through trying times. However, after seeing Saving Private Ryan, I am awed and ashamed. I did not realize what my father and his generation went through to ensure our nation's freedom. If Spielberg, Tom Hanks and the excellent cast do nothing more for the rest of their lives, their epitaphs should make note of Saving Private Ryan. MICHAEL LAUGHLIN Katy, Texas...
...used to be much easier to tell which of us were nuts and which weren't. Take, for example, a recent trip to a California desert to check out a scrubby campsite in the middle of the sand trap that stretches from San Diego to Phoenix. The nowhere setting and psycho temperature, a relatively cool 112[degrees] on a recent afternoon, tells you right away that the 100 to 150 squatters parked there this summer--several thousand others always flee the heat and return in October--are whacked out of their gourd...
...Slab City endures, with its misfits, coots, dropouts and loners, most of them pensioners and all of them celebrating freedom, the religion of the desert, and, best of all, free rent...